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Phytogeography of the Fungal Genus Lycoperdon in Relation to the Opening of the Atlantic

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IN the preparation of a world monograph of the genus Lycoperdon (Gasteromycetes) I have examined 8,500 herbarium collections of these puffballs from Europe (only the Baltic region in the case of the USSR) and North America. Abundance of material enabled grid maps to be drawn showing species distribution; such maps are rare in mycology owing to a lack of precise chorological information1–3. Fungi were therefore seldom considered biogeographically4–7 until Kreisel's monograph of Bovista8 in 1967.

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DEMOULIN, V. Phytogeography of the Fungal Genus Lycoperdon in Relation to the Opening of the Atlantic. Nature 242, 123–125 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242123a0

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